Cold showers lift depression – Embrace the brain freeze, because a cold shower hits the ‘blue spot’ and stimulates the release of noradrenaline. That is a natural remedy for depression. The cold is also a basic form of electroshock therapy that stimulates impulses through the brain.

Cold showers build willpower – You don’t want to do it, you think you can’t do it and then you learn very quickly that you can. This will help you face other challenges.

Cold showers wake you up – This is pretty obvious. But if you stumble into the shower half asleep, then a blast of cold water will shake the cobwebs out pretty damned fast. You’ll breathe deep as a natural reaction, get Oxygen to the deepest recesses of your lungs and your brain will scramble into action as it tries to work out what the fuck is going on and how it can get your body out of this uncomfortable place.

Cold showers improve your skin and hair – Human beings weren’t designed to bathe in hot water and it can dissolve and strip a lot of natural oils that we really need. Cold showers are better for your body, it’s really that simple.

Cold showers speed up muscle recovery – Ice baths are hardly a big secret. Professional athletes use them and a cold shower is just a cut price version.

Cold showers help you sleep – Messed up isn’t it? But a cold shower before bed, and a hypnosis session, can send you straight off to sleep.

3. Sleep one hour more

If you’re in a rut, suffering from depression or just not on your game, then your sleep pattern can suffer.

In fact, one of the clearest tells that your brain isn’t jiving right now is how well you are sleeping.

I work from home, for international clients, so I know when life is spinning out when I go completely nocturnal and am working at 5am and sleeping half the day.

That’s extreme, but if you are staying awake and watching shit TV or browsing Tinder, then go to fucking bed.

Set a time, keep it regular and your body will be ready at the right time.

Don’t bullshit yourself that you can’t sleep and you function fine on four hours. You don’t.

So even if you end up staring at the ceiling for the first week, go to bed at a decent time, after a cold shower. Use the hypnosis.

See how a lot of these lifehacks tie together? It’s the basis of a system, a simple system you can build on.

4. Drink a breakfast smoothie and fresh juices

If you drop into Starbucks for a burnt espresso and a bucket of milk every morning, stop it.

Too much coffee wrecks your nervous system and you could be taking in something so much better.

Soda, too, is terrible for you.

You don’t need to buy a big name. There are plenty of cheaper alternatives to the Nutribullet. This blender from Epica costs less than $25 on Amazon and it will do the job for now.

About The Author

Nick

One day journalist and copywriter Nick Hall looked in the mirror and wasn't happy where life had taken him. So he decided to get off his ass and do something about it, this is a journey back from the rut from Hell.
He learned some valuable lessons along the way. Now he's passing them on to you.